It reads like Adam Barton puts more challenges in.
..."Franchise" tag.
First part of a series of stories from my lengthy interview with him this week.
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/exclusive-wasps-owner-derek-richardson-9039965
Can you not do it as a Q and A? I guess that shows more how he came to those quotes.
Like you say, you could have asked him something and he dodged it but we only see the dodging.
Come on Nick. You may not like the answers, but it's slightly disingenuous to suggest I didn't question him properly.
I hope the Telegraph are being well paid for the PR work they are doing for Wasps. Or do Wasps get this sort of advertising free?
You may well have questioned him but the article doesn't read like that, it reads like a Wasps PR piece. Hopefully that balance will be redressed over the remaining parts.
Do you really believe there's some sort of shady arrangement with Wasps where we only give them positive coverage? I mean do you ACTUALLY believe that?
They do seem to get away lightly, I am no expert on journalism so may be a bit naive but it isn't hard to see when reading a story what you are "meant" to think after reading it. Not just the Telegraph before anybody says that, other local newspapers also included!
Would you let Tim Fisher sit there and bullshit you as much? Maybe they could get together and have a bullshit off and record it?
The same criticism is often levelled whenever Mr Fisher speaks about the new stadium in our paper.
I'm not in the business of mind control. People can read the comments and judge for themselves.
If a reader can't think for themselves, then they're in trouble anyway.
In all honesty, its presented like this because there was a lot to write / split up and this was the quickest way of doing it.
To me it allows him to paint a false picture. For example Wasps weren't nomadic, that's factually incorrect. Now he obviously said it and you may well have questioned him on it but people will read this article and it will now become fact.
Do you really believe there's some sort of shady arrangement with Wasps where we only give them positive coverage? I mean do you ACTUALLY believe that?
Do you really believe there's some sort of shady arrangement with Wasps where we only give them positive coverage? I mean do you ACTUALLY believe that?
There appears to be a lack of scrutiny of CCC and ACL's role in this and Wasps being welcomed with open arms. This is the same paper that ran a major campaign, for which I seem to recall you won an award, against CCFC playing temporarily 35 miles away yet there seems to be no issue at all with Wasps being dropped into the city.
The bloke asked questons, and these are the answers. Richardson, or anyone else for that matter is never going to paint themselces in a bad light and say "actually, fuck it you're right - it is a franchise, and we have stiched up our core fan base etc.."
Has anybody on here actually noticed that there is an Election campaign going on at the minute!!! Look at how the Parties answer questions, and how manifesto's are launched; and how it is reported. It could be argued that the CT could do a Nick Robinson style disectoin of the issues raised by Richardson's answers, but realyy it is down to readers to make there own mind up and move on - re the Election.
If anyone dislikes the CT so much, then don't read it - such as me dumping UKIP shit in the bin as soon as it hits the mat (to clarify, I am not in any way comparing the CT to blinkered pseudo facist opportunist fuckwits)
And yet when Les Reid asked Joy questions...
Of course they do, anything that does not support there one sided slant of anything is always deemed as false propheting.Do you really believe there's some sort of shady arrangement with Wasps where we only give them positive coverage? I mean do you ACTUALLY believe that?
The number of times Simon has said that questions have been put to SISU and they refuse to answer them. If they wanted to answer them in a positive light towards SISU do you think the CT would refuse to publish them? Of course not its just they refuse to answer them at all.I don't think there's a "shady arrangement" but you certainly are going on an all-out offensive with PR for them. You never do or have (at least for a long time) been this generous to the Citys' football team.
Maybe you could link to some of the constant stories that haven't been positive?
The number of times Simon has said that questions have been put to SISU and they refuse to answer them. If they wanted to answer them in a positive light towards SISU do you think the CT would refuse to publish them? Of course not its just they refuse to answer them at all.
Of course they do, anything that does not support there one sided slant of anything is always deemed as false propheting.
I don't get the fuss about Wasps coverage in the CT.
They put themselves out there and give the paper copy to work with.
CCFC have been pretty abysmal with their media handling for a number of years particularly with the local press.
Also it's not as if we are giving the CT many opportunities to write positively about us - either on or off the field.
There's nothing stopping Seppala ringing up the CT offering to do an indepth interview on the new stadium for example. I'm sure that would get plenty of coverage. As mentioned earlier she wasn't exactly challenged when she spoke to Les Reid when he was at the CT.
Wasps owner isn't hiding behind a load of front men like SISU do.
It makes absolute sense for Wasps to be putting themselves in the local media whilst they are trying to establish themselves in the area. Lest we forget Ranson wasn't exactly publicity-shy during his early years here.
I actually think there are lessons that could be learnt from Wasps in terms of media-relations and marketing - again 2 areas we have been poor in over the last few years.
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